Randel Crag, Skiddaw: Dapingian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Pterobranchia
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Cumbria
Coordinates: 54.7° North, 3.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.3° South, 87.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Middle Ordovician
Stage: Dapingian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 2
Key time interval: Dapingian Graptolite zone:  Isograptus gibberulus
Age range of interval: 471.3 - 469.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Skiddaw Formation:Kirk Stile
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Lithology description: black mudstone with silty interbeds
Environment:basinal (siliciclastic)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:120548
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-11-16 20:17:33 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-11-16 20:17:33
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
38530. J. P. Botting and L. A. Muir. 2011. A new Middle Ordovician (Late Dapingian) hexactinellid sponge from Cumbria, UK. Geological Journal 46:501-506 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]